INDUSTRY


Agriculture

Manufacturing

Mining

Fisheries and Aquaculture

Construction Work Done

New Motor Vehicle Sales

Retail Trade

Gaming Machines

Tourist Accommodation

International Tourism


AGRICULTURE

	South Australia June 2007	Australia June 2007
Establishments with agricultural activity (no.)	13 999	134 353
Area of farms ('000 ha)	50 065	425 449
Area planted to crops ('000 ha)	4 450	23 530

	South Australia 2006-07	Australia 2006-07
Agricultural businesses irrigating (no.)	6 447	41 787
Volume of water applied (ML)	966 057	7 636 194

	South Australia 2007-08	Australia 2007-08
Gross value of total agriculture ($m)(a)	5 247.6	44 581.4
Barley ($m)	460.9	2 245.5
Grapes ($m)	762.8	1 698.2
Potatoes ($m)	284.4	691.6
Wheat ($m)	940.8	5 425.9
(a) Preliminary.

MANUFACTURING

	South Australia 2006-07	Australia 2006-07
Sales and service income ($m)	28 586.0	377 930.0
Employment (persons) ('000)	99.1	1 014.1

MINING

	South Australia 2006-07	Australia 2006-07
Mineral commodities produced ($m)	3 411	104 487
Copper ($m)	1 532	7 525
Natural gas ($m)	340	2 915
Uranium oxide ($m)	299	664

FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE

	South Australia 2006-07	Australia 2006-07
Quantity caught ('000 t)	60.6	240.3
Gross value ($m)	426.5	2 181.6

Source: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics, Fisheries Research and Development Corporation, Australian Fisheries Statistics 2007.


CONSTRUCTION WORK DONE(a)

	South Australia 2007-08	Australia 2007-08
New residential building ($m)	2 074.7	34 613.2
Alterations and additions to residential building ($m)	349.9	6 478.3
Non-residential building ($m)	1 411.6	29 846.2
Engineering construction ($m)	2 466.9	58 297.2

(a) Chain volume measures, reference year 2006-07.

NEW MOTOR VEHICLE SALES

	South Australia 2007-08	Australia 2007-08
Total vehicles (no.)	64 238	1 012 165
Passenger vehicles (no.)	39 127	596 766
Sports utility vehicles (no.)	11 336	194 459
Other vehicles (no.)	13 775	220 940

RETAIL TRADE

	South Australia 2008	Australia 2008
Retail turnover ($m)	15 826.5	220 718.5
Cafes, restaurants and takeaway food services ($m)	1 734.3	26 230.4
Clothing and soft good retailing ($m)	783.4	15 493.8
Department stores ($m)	1 497.1	18 357.6
Food retailing ($m)	6 832.4	90 042.3
Household good retailing ($m)	2 654.7	36 856.4
Other retailing ($m)	2 324.6	33 738.1

GAMING MACHINES

	South Australia December qtr 2008
Net gaming revenue ($m)	193.4

	South Australia December 2008
Gaming machines (number)	12 722
Venues with a gaming license (number)	569

Source: Office of the Liquor and Gambling Commssioner, SA - Quarterly Gaming Statistics 2008-2009.


TOURIST ACCOMMODATION(a)

	South Australia Sep qtr 2008	Australia Sep qtr 2008
Hotels, motels and serviced apartments (no.)	257	4 267
Guest arrivals ('000)	536.7	10 243.9

(a) Establishments containing 15 or more rooms.


INTERNATIONAL TOURISM

International tourism	South Australia 2008	Australia 2008
Visitors ('000)	357	5 167
Average length of stay (nights)	19	32
Expenditure ($m)	504	15 567

Source: Tourism Research Australia, International Visitor Survey, December quarter 2008.